Word: losses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tremendously increased efficiency and knowledge of our medical men and surgeons such wastage would in a few months thin below the minimum of fighting power the strongest armies. Fortunately we are not bound by the ignorance which in the wars of a half-century ago caused the losses of innumerable lives through fever, contagious diseases, and gangrene. The knowledge given to the world by Pasteur and his followers has enabled the medical corps of all the warring armies to restore in the shortest time and with the least loss of effectives wounded or otherwise disabled men to the fighting line...
...test of a man's greatness is not in the crowds which cheer him while he lives; nor in that newspaper prominence whereby the famous are alternately lauded and reviled. The test of his greatness is in the feeling of irreparable loss which comes over those whom he has served during life...
...mistakes of the English universities must not be experienced. Oxford and Cambridge sent their men to the trenches in such a manner that it resulted in the loss of technical education along medical and chemical lines which would now be of much value...
...stability of our industries, the very prosperity of the country, depends in large part on our overseas shipping facilities. On account of the lack of ships our exporters have suffered severely from excessive freight rates, unfair discrimination in favor of foreign competitors and, in many cases, actual loss of business. The great factor in correcting these conditions and stabilizing our home industries will be re-establishment of the merchant marine which will restore to American industry the control of the distribution and sale of its products...
...women and children are left to sorrow over the loss of those who so freely died. Nothing in life may compensate to them for the broken bonds, the shattered family ties, the lost hopes of a more joyous future when this dark war should end. The tragedy of the martyr is condensed in one brief moment of sacrifice: the tragedy of the mourner is ceaseless...